A Second Treasury of the World's Great Letters: A Mixed Mailbag Including Intimate Exchanges and Cycles of Correspondence by Famed Men and Women of History and the ArtsWallace Brockway, Bart Keith Winer Simon and Schuster, 1941 - 636 pages Brockway, Wallace & Winer, Bart Keith, ed. |
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... asked what he saw in the future , what final result , and what sort of constitution , he openly confessed that there was no hope left . He expressed fear of Pompey's fleet , and said that , if it put out to sea , he should abandon ...
... asked what he saw in the future , what final result , and what sort of constitution , he openly confessed that there was no hope left . He expressed fear of Pompey's fleet , and said that , if it put out to sea , he should abandon ...
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... asked me if I had any desire to see any persons in particu- lar . " Lead me to the philosophers . " " There are two that reside here in this garden . They are very good neighbours and very friendly to each other . " " Who are they ...
... asked me if I had any desire to see any persons in particu- lar . " Lead me to the philosophers . " " There are two that reside here in this garden . They are very good neighbours and very friendly to each other . " " Who are they ...
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... asked the adherence of Thomas Henry Huxley , the great biologist who had coined the term agnostic to define his own ... asking him to do something for which he is pretty sure to be violently assailed , I have to ask myself whether I ...
... asked the adherence of Thomas Henry Huxley , the great biologist who had coined the term agnostic to define his own ... asking him to do something for which he is pretty sure to be violently assailed , I have to ask myself whether I ...
Contents
A FATAL FRIENDSHIP A SERIES | 3 |
CAESAR WARNS CICERO TO STAND ALOOF FROM CIVIL STRIFE | 12 |
SENECA DENOUNCES THE MODERN TREATMENT | 17 |
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